This is based on a true story, told to me by an insensitive colleague about her trip to Yosemite.

A hiker fell to his death off Half Dome, attempting to hold tight to the steel cables.  I don’t want to go up there, he pleaded with his wife, I’m so afraid. We’re going, she said.  Just don’t look down.  But he was compelled by the swirling void beneath him.